FC: Los Angeles will post "general location" of sex offenders online

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Xeni Jardin" <xeni () xeni net>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
Subject: LA to track & post home locations of sex offenders online
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:39:24 -0700

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020731/wr_nm/crime_map_dc_2

L.A. to Track Sex Offenders on Internet
Tue Jul 30, 8:13 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With national nerves raw after a series of
high-profile child kidnappings, Los Angeles County officials on Tuesday
approved a plan to post the general locations of sex offenders' homes on the
Internet.

The Internet map would follow the design of San Diego County's "Regional Sex
Offender Pin Map," which designates within about a half-block the areas
where convicted sex offenders are living after being freed from prison.

As in the San Diego model, Los Angeles County residents would have to go to
sheriff's stations to get addresses, photos and criminal histories of
offenders because state law prohibits such information from being
disseminated over the Internet.

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